2 Charles Manson Abstract Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an icon of evil. In the late 1960’ Manson founded a hippie cult group known as “the family” whom he manipulated into brutally killing others on his behalf (Rosenberg, 2002). Some people even say Charles Manson was almost like a cult leader. Charles denies these accusations and goes on to say “you (the People) have made me into the person I am today”.

3 Charles Manson Overview of Charles Manson: Charles Manson was born Charles Milles Maddox, the son of an unwed mother, in Cincinnati Ohio on November twelfth, nineteen thirty-four. His father, he stated in his autobiography, was a "young drugstore cowboy", a transient laborer who abandoned Charles' mother when he learned that she was pregnant. Shortly after Charles' birth, Kathleen Maddox lived with a man named William Manson, and they eventually got married. William Manson gave his new stepson his name, although the marriage dissolved shortly thereafter. Raised in a strict, religious home, Kathleen Maddox- Manson rebelled after the breakup of her marriage. She reveled in her newfound freedom by drinking a lot and loving freely. Like many young mothers, Kathleen was not yet ready for the responsibilities that go along with the raising of a child. She had fled a stifling home life and rushed into marriage, and she had a lot of living to do before she settled down. Charles was passed from relative to relative to baby-sitter, and was soon sold to a waitress in a restaurant in exchange for a pitcher of beer. An uncle tracked him down and took him home several days later. When Charles was five years old, his mother and a man were convicted of robbing a service station in Charlestown, West Virginia. (Turner, M. 1996-2007) Since his mother couldn't take care of him, Charles spent his youth at the homes of various relatives and often at special reform schools and boys homes. By age nine, Charles Manson had already started stealing and soon added burglary and stealing cars to his repertoire (Rosenberg, 2002).

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4 Charles Manson Charles Manson In the annals of crime, there might never have been a more bizarre motive for killing than that revealed in the 1970’s trails of Charles Manson and four of the Manson Family

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